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PRICE TWO CENTS. SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 18, 1902. 28 PAGES-FIVE O'CLOCK. ^
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BACKS UP VAN SANT
Speaker Dowling Brings the Gov-
ernor a Cheering Message. '
PLANS TO LIMIT LEGISLATION
T h e S p e a k e r P r o p o s e s T w o T h a t Suit
H i m L n y b o u r u Objects t o
V e s s e l Tax .
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agrees with the speaker in wanting it de
ferred to Tuesday night, or even Wednes
day. He thinks there can be no object in
holding a caucus Monday night, before the
governor's message is received.
C o m m i s s i o n W i l l Stay B y .
It Is understood that members of the
tax commission expect to remain about
the capitol during the extra session, to
be within easy reach of the legislature
for consultation whenever desired. As
their work is really completed now, the
legislature will probably appropriate
money to pay for their attendance.
NEW CANAL
M. J. Dowling of Renville, speaker of
the Minnesota house, had an extended
talk with Governor Van Sant this morn
ing. Mr. Dowling has beeen seriously ill
with pneumonia, and is not in his usual
health yet. He had not been in the twin
cities for six weeks.
Mr. Dowling talked freely with a Jour
nal man after leaving the governor's of
fice. He said:
called ou the governor to pay him my re
spects and to let him know that I shall do
all in my power to hold up his hands. He has
called this extra session for the purpose
of passing the tax bill, and that is what we
propose to do.
I believe we can confine our work pretty
closely to the tax report, and without ap
plying any gag rule, either. I suggested two
methods to the governor this morning, and I
would be satisfied with either of them.
One is to pass a resolution excluding all
but tax bills from consideration except in
this-: On roll call, each morning, let each
member as his name is called, if he so de
sires, introduce a local bill. There are a
good many such that must be passed and
could go through under suspension of the
rules. In one county a bridge appropriation
is held up on account of a mistake in the
name of a township. It will take a curative
act of the legislature to straighten it out.
There are many such cases, but I would lim'.t
the work to strictly local bills, that would
consume very little of the time of the house.
Th eother plan Is to pass a resolution pre
venting the introduction of any bills', except
as requested by the governor. He could
pass on all these local measures, and exclude
all others. His position is well known. He
has called the session to pas's on the tax re
port, and not for general legislation.
Favors a. Caucus Tuesday,
I am not inclined to favor a caucus before
Tuesday night. We could hardly act intel
ligently until we receive the governor's mes
sage Tuesday morning. That, and organiza
tion would be all we could accomplish the
first day. That night we could caucus.
Yes, I think that to be on the safe side we
should organize over again.
How do I like the tax report? Well, I am
reading it with great interest, and I consider
it a very able document. It appears to me,
as far as I have gone, an admirable system.
My only objection is to the ?25 exemption. It
should be left at ?100. To prevent dividing
up the property we could provide by law
for only one exemption in each family. Poor
people pay taxes enough now.
L a r b o n r n Out fo r S e n a t o r .
George R. Laybounr of Duluth, a lead
ing member of the house, appeared at the
office of the secretary of state this morn
ing and filed his affidavit as a candidate
for the republican nomination for sen
ator in the fifty-first district. It is now
represented by Senator C. O. Baldwin, a
democrat.
Mr. Laybourn is author of the bill
providing for the tax commission. He
strongly indorses the bill they propose,
with one exception, the change in vessel
taxation. He said to-day:
W a n t s T o n naif e T a x R e t a i n e d .
The commission has changed our present
law taxing vessels registered in Minnesota 3
cents a ton, and places them on an ad
valorem basis. That would be all right if the
vessels had to register In Minnesota, but
they have the choice of any port on the great
lakes-. There are 288 vessels now registered
at Duluth. They have a tonnage of 350,000
tons and pay $10,000 in taxes, half of which
goes to the state. If they are taxed as
other property they will register hereafter at
West Superior, Marquette or points on the
other lakes. That would be a great blow
to Duluth. Not only do these vessels ad
vertise Duluth but they usually winter whera
they register, end they spend a great deal of
money with us. The state will gain nothing
by this change, and I do not believe it will
be made.
The provision for taxation of the mines is
all right. The best sentiment of St. Louis
county is in fuvor of the bill as submitted
It does not favor a tonnage tax, which the
commission advocate in their report. The
bill is a great improvement on existing laws.
^ With the exception of vessel taxation, I am
"Kery well satisfed. It has been objected
to for various reasons. The practice of send
ing out printel lists of assessments' si ob-
' noxious to rmny, but I believe it it all right,
Ambitious Enterprise Con
templated by a Canadian
Company.
Ottawa, Ont., Jan. 18.The, Huron &
Erie Canal company will apply at the
coining session of the Canadian parlia
ment for incorporation with power to con
struct a canal not less than eighteen feet
deep from a point in Huron or Lambton
county, on the east shore of Lake Huron,
to a point on the northern shore of Lake
Erie, Elgin county.
The company also asks for power to
operate all terminals and to acquire all
existing canals and rights in navigable
and unnavigable streams en route from
point to point, also for the right to
operate electric and steam railways with
in a radius of fifteen miles of the canal
route.
EXPLODED
Locomotive Boiler Lets Go
and Kills Engineer and
Fireman.
STOLE CASH BOX
Gambling Resort at Omaha
Held Up by Two Nervy
Robbers.
Omaha, Neb., Jan. 18.Two robbers
held up a dozen men in a gambling room
over the saloon of Cliff Cole at Fourteenth
and Douglas streets at 4 o'clock this
morning and secured the cash box and
$200 in money from the customers of the
place. They were captured ten minutes
later by a squad of policemen. They gave
the names of Frank Williams and Frank
Jones.
The robbery wa s a bold one, occurring
in the heart of the city, and neither ctf
the men was masked. They drew revol
vers and ordered the men in the room to
hold up their hands. After securing their
money and the cash box of the concern
they rushed down stairs into Douglas
street, where a policeman gave chase,
firing several shots after them.
A call was turned in to the police sta
tion and a wagon load of policemen was
sent to the scene. One of the robbers
ran out of an alley and into the arms of
a policeman the other was found in a
hallway. At the station both men ad
mitted their identity and said they had
lost their money in the place and thought
their game was as fair as that of the
gambling house. All of the money taken
from the cash box was found on the men.
Victor, Iowa. Jan. 18.As the Denver
limited passenger train, No. 5t of the Rock
Island was passing through this town this'
morning at 5:55 the boiler of the engine,
No. 503, exploded and c'l.liSied, ith'e death
of the engineer and fireman'arid slight in
jured to two porters and a brakeman.
The killed are:
W. Williams, of Brooklyn, Iowa, enr
gineer.. 7
E. Hoar, of Valley Junction, Iowa, fire
man.
The accident took place within 250 feet
of the station and the noise of the ex
plosion aroused the whole town. The
force threw every one of the .seven
coaches of the train from the track, but
only overturned the Des Moines Pullman
Fortunately the passengers were unin
jured. Pieces of the wrecked engine were
strewn around to a distance of two hun
dred fleet and the boiler was found 150
feet away.
The causes leading to the explosion will
never be known, ov.ing ot the death of the
engineer and fireman. Superintendent
Lawrence of this division arrived in a
special at 8 o'clock from Des Moines. He
refused to make any statement. The
bodies of the engineer and fireman were
horribly mangled and were found only a
short distance away.
T h e Official V e r s i o n .
Chicago, Jan. 18.The official statement
given out at the general offices of the
Rock Island says the engine of the train
leaving Chicago at 10 o'clock last night
"dropped her crown sheet at Victor,
wrecking the engine and throwing the
baggage car, buffet and four sleepers on
their sides. Engineer W. Williams and
his fireman (name unknown) were in
stantly killed and Baggagemaster Shaffer
was injured. The passengers escaped
without Injury."
STRANGE SILENCE
P o r t l a n d Ma n F i n a l l y E x p l a i n s H i s
D i s a p p e a r a n c e .
Portland, Oregon, Jan. 18.Alexander
K. Bell, who disappeared mysteriously
from this city two months ago, has been
heard from. Two letters from him ar
rived in Portland yesterday, one to his
fiancee and one to his mother. They were
written in Los Angeles, Jan. 14, two
months from the date of the last prior tid
ings from him. He says he will return to
Portland- when his health shall be suffi
ciently restored, and intimates that this
will be soon. Financial losses and a con
sequent attack of brain fever that held
him unconscious for several weeks are
given in explanation of his strange
silence.
DENIED FOR MORGAN
LEASES TO
IE AWARDED
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Secretary flftchcock Decides
on Standing Rock Lands
TWO SUCCESSFUL BIDS
Hitchcock and Commissioner Jones
Think*They Are Right. \/ /
MISAPPREHENSIONS CORRECTED
Size of Tract-Much. S m a l l e r a n d Nam -
b e r of I n d i a n F a m i l i e s L e s s
T h a n F i r s t R e p o r t e d .
No A b s o r p t i o n of V a r i o u s S t e a m -
s h i p L i n e s .
New York, Jan. 18.A representative of
J. P. Morgan & Co. to-day dented that
Mr. Morgan was organizing a great steam
ship company to absorb the American,
Leyland, White Star and Cunard lines.
He said:
"There is nothing to it. The whole
thing is Just so nvuch talk. That's the
sum and substance of it all."
The Staats Zeitung to-day published a
cablegram from Berlin saying that the di
rectors general of the North German
Lloyd and Hamburg-American Steamship
companies would come ot the United
States together.
Jlr. Laybourn favors a caucus, but carried by the soldier*
NEW ARMY RIFLE
P o w e r f u l W e a p o n t o R e p l a c e t h e
K r a g - J o r g e n s e n .
New YorTe Sun Special Service
Washington, Jan. 18.After several
years' work the ordnance department of
the.army has designed, a new rifle to taks
the place of the improved Krag-Jorgen
sen, now in use. It is said to be a
wonderful Improvement. Secretary Root
has approved a recommendation that 5,000
rifles of this new pattern be made as soon
as possible and distributed to the army.
The new rifle will have a velocity of
2,300 feet a second, and will carry an
increased powder charge. The only
change in th9 cartridge will be the sub
stitution of a groove in the gun for the
rim now made on the cartridge itself.
The cartridges will be carried in clips of
five each and a slight downward pressure
of the thumb will force all five cart
ridges into the magazine at once. The
new rifle will have a stiffened rod bayonet
instead of the sword bayonet, it being j right, deriving its charter from the" state
held that the sword bayonet does not J and that no order should be allowed for
justify the great additional weight to ha I its removal without the state being given
STATE WOULD ENTER
W i s c o n s i n P e t i t i o n s fo r a P a r t i n
W a s h b u r n R o a d L i t i g a t i o n .
Milwaukee, Jan. 18.The state of Wis
consin has taken a hand in the legal bat
tle which is being waged between Bayfield
county and the receiver for the Washburn,
Bayfield Iron River railroad to prevent
the tearing up of the railway.
Attorney General Hicks this afternoon
appeared before Judge Jenkins of the
United States circuit court and presented
a petition asking that the state be al
lowed to appear in the proceedings. The
grounds are that the railway is a public
I O M, Boom. 4S, jPoal JVoi The JouXM
JBuilding, Wa^mm.
iWashtogjipi^aa 18.A||hxmgh the sen
ate committee on Indiaajpsffairs has an-.,tween
nounced its intention tojjgive hearings to
praties interested in lea|pag pasture land
on .part of the Standing Jjrock Indian res
ervation, the secretarylf of the interior
has decided to award leases to two bid
ders whose offers are equal at. 30% mills
an acre. These are George B. Lemmon of
Spearflsh, S. D.-, and Wm. I. Walker of
Rock Island, 111.
Secretary Hitchcock and Commissioner
Jones .are tooth confident that their judg
ment will be vindicated when all the facts
appear. . In certain particulars the agi
tation over this question has borne good
fruit. The original estimate of the de
partment, based on a map which gave a
wrong idea of a certain river boundary
and an inadvertent confusion in figures,
set the leased area at between 2,000,000
and 3,000,000 acres. A revised estimate
shows that the total area is only 1,200,000
acres. Doubtless some of the alarm said
to have spread among the Indians and
certainly stirring the breasts of their
friends, was due to this miscalculation,
which indicated that three-fourths or
more of the entire reservation was to be
let to cattle men. In the original ad
vertisement, moreover, bidders were no
tified that they would be allowed to cut
posts necessary for fencing from timber
growing on the reservation.
As pointed out in this correspondence,
the plan wa s founded on a misconception
of conditions there. The lease as now
prepared requires lessees to flndi their
timlber elsewhere, and the little that is
growing on the reservation will be re
served for the needs of jthe Indians them
selves.' Major McLaufchlin, the veteran
Indian inspector, w h o f t ..related by mar
riage to an importal$|isJelement of the
tribe, asserts positiii^^^aB within his
own .knowledge., tha' '
l i v ^ g onSfiiat p
w$ir~e lessef
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opponents^
thdl^M^b^^fv
WILLMOYE
TO UPPER NIC.
R. S. Goodfellow & Co.Leases
Fine New Store
IN WESTMINSTER BLOCK
The Firm Gets Four Floors at
Seventh and Nicollet.
TWO ADDITIONS TO THE FIRM
G e o r g e L o n d o n a n d J. B . M o s h e r B e -
c o m e PartnersA S t r i c t l y M o d -
e r n STore I s P l a n n e d .
JONES'ORDER MEANS
Reported Order Compelling Indians
to Forswear Paint and Cut Their
Hair Is Revolutionary.
[Wil
s
ryafKotafc
nesses beforo |he-comiiiifc&et
R. S. Goodfellow & Co., for many years
in the dry goods business on Nicollet be
Washington and Third street, has
leased the basement and three floors of
the corner store in the Westminster
block. Seventh street and Nicollet avenue.
The leased store has a frontage of 100
feet on the avenue. The firm of R. S.
Goodfellow & Cd9 has been in the retail
business for twenty-five years, and ever
since its foundation has controlled a.large,
fashionable and profitable trade, notwith
standing the fact that its location. on
lower Nicollet is out of the center of
the retail district, which has gradually
moved up town. Many of the best fami
lies in the city have done much of their
trading at R. S. Goodfellow & Co.'s store.
The move to Seventh s'treet into a fine
new building, easy of access from all parts
of the city, is an important one to Nicol
let avenue and to the firm. A better dis
play of goods, finer facilities for "doing
business and a growing trade is assured.
Westminster block was planned by
Architect S. C. Sedgwick so that
the stores should have the finest
plate glass show fronts to be
found anywhere, and- the arrange
ments made by the firm for exhibit
ing goods in the windows will insure an
other magnificent addition to the already
large expanse for which Nicollet avenue
is famous the country over.
N e w P a r t n e r s i n F i r m .
George Loudon, who has been con
nected with the firm of R. S. Goodfellow
& Co. for years in positions of great re
sponsibility, will become an active partner
and have more prominence in 'the man
agement of the business. J. B. Mosher,
who. is favorably known through his long
connection with Mannheimer Brothers,
in St. Paul, will also become a partner.
:Mr. Mosher isrings with him a thorough
^knowledge of the dry goods business and
Hais assistance in the direction of the af
Jfairs of the firm will be invaluable.
.Theplacing of the burden of the control
j y j h e f .business" management on young
If^dulders will allow Mr. Goodfellow more
\d,o, hislarge real estate and
personal interests." 7He will In the future
N p & i n g ^ i s * ' k & ^ ^ Loudon and
t* -v
a hearing.
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S A
flee*of^ahy^el^ation ^f^Iudi^s^nr^ta
way
!hVre to protest lagainst .tki^eafflei
A delegation of five ^apiauth^wefll^sbme
tim4 ajjoUat the instance of S^afeenlfe^o.
come.V#ast
with him ajad' discuss ice^jMi'jii
matters "o feeneral interest with, the gov^
eminent, but fob one here seems, to know
what the attftude of this party is toward
the leasing question. The authorities of
the department refuse to believe that the
Indians have voted in council against
leasing, as they have what purports to be
a record of the council in which a major
ity of competent voting members declared
in favor, of leasing.
C. A. S. Frost, private
SECRETARY secretary of Judge A. H.
Noyes, who was sentenced
OF to a year's imprisonment
by the circuit court of
NOYES. appeals at San Francisco,
is in Washington to file
an application for a writ of certiorari in
the supreme court in his own case. When
Frost left San Francisco, Judge Noyes was
too ill to transact any business. His
doctors would not allow any one to talk
to him about the case and nothing is
known about his possible action in the
future.
ST. PAUL'S The urgency deficiency
appropriation reported to
BENEFIT, the house to-day carries
items of $100,000 for the
completion of the St. Paul public building,
$10,000 for the completion of the building
at Dubuque and $4,775 for reproducing the
land records destroyed by fire at Bis
marck, N. D.
DEADLOCK There is a suggestion
in the senate of a dis
ON CANAL. position to kill the Nic
aragua canal bill by the
advocacy of th e Panama route not be
cause the Panama route is really favored
as being the better, but because certain
men want an excuse for not voting for
the bill that passed the house. The sug
gestion may not amount to anything, but
may well be watched by those interested.
Should the senate, as the result of oppo
sition from those who a.o not want a
canal built, pass a bill favoring the Pan
ama route, the matter would go to confer
ence between the two houses, and there
be lost, for 1t is hardly likely that the
house in its present temper would recede.
W. W. Jernrane.
PAT CROWE AGAJN
C o l o r a d o Official H a s a " H n n c h " T h a t
H e H a s H i m .
Creede, Col., Jan. 18.Distridt Attorney
James D. Pilcher has telegraphed Chief of
Police J. J. Donahue of Denver that Edwin
V. .Wilbur, who is held a prisoner here
to answer charges of swindling and for
gery, may be Pat Crowe. *
The age, complexion and height of Wil
bur tallies with Donahue's description of
Crowe. It is also known that Wilbur
was associated with a person of the iden
tical description of the man Donahue,
described as "No. 2."
Omaha, Neb., Jan. 18.Chief of Police
Donohue does not think the man arrested
at Creede, Col., giving the name of Wil
bur, is Pat Crowe.
WARREN IS \UT
U n i t e d . S t a t e s S e n a t o r Front W y o m -
i n g D o u b l y Afflicted.
Cheyenne, Wyo., Jan. 18.United States
Senator Francis E. Warren, who has been
at his home here since the holiday ad
journment of congress, i s suffering with
an acute attack of neuralgia in his head
and face, accompanied by rheumatism in
his right leg. He expects to be able to
return to Washington inside of a week.
PRESIDENT OF WILLIAMS ^
R e v . Dr . H o p k i n s oC K a n s a s City
G o es t o a n E a s t e r n Collegre. .-.'-
Weu Torh Sin. Special Servian
r y
New York, Jan. 18.The trustees of
Williams college have elected Rev. Henry
Hopkins, D. D., of Kansas City, Mo.,
to be president of the college, filling the
vacancy made by the resignation of Dr.
Franklin Carter.
Mosher
It is understood that Mr. Loudon con
templates no change in the force, but the
business, will be expanded to correspond
With the^magnitude of the new quarters.
Minneapolis is recognized as the retail
dry goods center west of Chicago. It is
intended that the stock of goods shall
equal anything displayed in any western
store. Advanced methods of handling the
trade and of conducting the business will
be employed.
The new arrangements are the result of
hard work on the part of Edward P. El
liott and J. W. Clark of the Elliott
Credit Co.
BRISTOW EXPECTS TO GO
FOURTH ASSISTANT P . M. GENERAL
Mr. P a y n e H a d I n t e n d e d t o A p p o i n t
t h e L a t e G e o r g e M. W i s w e l l
t o t h e P l a c e .
new York Sun Speoial Servie*
Washington, Jan. 18. Washington Is
wondering if Henry C. Payne, the new
postmaster general will reorganize his
office of assistant postmasters general.
The fact that Mr. Payne had selected the
late George M. Wiswell, of Milwaukee, to
be fourth assistant postmaster general is
taken to mean that he had made up his
mind to dispense with the services of
Mr. Bristow, who holds that position.
Bristow hails from Kansas. He has
immediate supervision of the postoffice
inspectors, who comprise a. corps of
trained detectives. Bristow himself was
once a postoffice inspector and an emi
nently successful one. He has to hisi
credit a number of important cases in
volving violations of the postal laws.
Bristow personally conducted an investi
gation of the.frauds upon the Cuban pos
tal service which were committed by Nee
ly and- Rathbono, and it was due to his
earnest work that evidence proving the
culpability of that precious pair was ob
tained.
He made on e tactical blunder, however.
He discovered that .Perry Heath was re
sponsible for Neely and so stated in hi
report to the postmaster general. Heath
never forgave him. Heath and Mr. Payne
are close friends. They have been as -
sociated through two national campaigns
under conditions that have caused them to
entertain a wholesome respect for each
other. Bristow, knowing the relations of
Mr. Payne and Mr. Heath, expects to go
now tihat the new postmaster general has
assumed control of the department.
PERSECUTED
T e m p e r a n c e A d v o c a t e S a y s H e "Was
I n c a r c e r a t e d W r o n g f u l l y .
yew Torh Sun Special Service
Richmond, Va., Jan. 18.Rev. James
Suddeth of Longdate, Va., who made a red
hot temperance speech before the conven
tion of the antisaloon league of Vir
ginia which caused much enthusiasm,
sprung a sensation when he declared that
he had been perescuted for the cause of
temperance that on account of his views
he had been arrested and thrown in jail
in Frederick county and illegally held
there then he was sent to, 4he Western
State hospital for the insane at Staun
ton, .without examination, and on papers
that were forgeries.
He says he appealed to the board the
institution and was released on furlough
and returned to Winchester and com
menced preaching, but that he was again
arrested and again released under.promise
that he would not return to Winchester
and was now on furlough. -
2 TINOS SURRENDER
Over T h r e e H u n d r e d T a k e t h e Oath
of A l l e g i a n c e .
Washington, Jan. 18.The war depart
ment is appraised of the surrender of 335
insurgents to Brigadier General James F.
Wade at Cebu, Philippine islands, Jan. 14.
Jan. 15 they took the oath at Taglttmran,
Bohol.
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This the Opinion of Those Who Have
Been Intimately Associated With
the Red Race.
If the government Insists that the In
dians in its charge shall cut.off their long
hair, abstain from the use of paint and
the gaudy habiliments of savagery, the
aborigines will dig up the hatchet and
shed their blood in resisting so sudden a
wiping out of racial characteristics.
This is the opinion of J. B. Bottineau,
son of Pierre Bottineau, the northwestern
pioneer and scout. Not only is Mr. Bot
tineau connected with the red race by
ties of blood, but for years he has been
counsellor and attorney for the Turtle
Mountain band of Indians. Nominally a
resident of Minneapolis, he calls Wash
ington his home, for his clients' business
demands that much of his time be spent
at the national capital.
Mr. Bottineau says an attempt at strict
enforcement of Commissioner Jones' re
ported order means a revolution what
ever happens.
A n A r b i t r a r y Order.
Said Mr. Bottineau to-day:
I think the order of Commissioner Jones,
as reported In press dispatches, the most
arbitrary and uncalled-for action that has
been taken by the interior department in
many years. I firmly believe that it will
provoke a revolution if it is enforced. How
can it be otherwise? The white man has
pushed the red man back and back from the
land he formerly occupied, and has penned
him up on reservations which are now being
wrung from him by unscrupulous schemers
without a recent murmur from the In
dians. The red man knows how to fight he
has demonstrated that fact. But the red
man also knows when he is whipped. He
realized long ago that it was useless for him
None #but the older braves cling to the cus
toms that were general among their raoe
within their own memory, and even thesa
have come to assume an indifferent attitude
towards the changes that are affecting their
children. They do pot retard the progress
of civilization, these old braves, except In so
far as they themselves decline to take on new
habits of life. Could it be expected by any
reasonable person? They are old, many of
them infirm and almost helpless. In their old
age is it strange that they should cling
fondly to those things that were so dear
to them in their earlier life? Could it be ex
pected that a white man, arriving at an ad
vanced age, would be willing to submit to
revolutions in his habits of dress and of
person? I think not.
Older H e a d s D o m i n a t e .
The American Indian, peaceful and submis
sive as he appears now, still has fire in his
veins, and an attempt at the strict enforce
ment of the order will mean revolution. I
do not say this threateningly, but it is my
conviction, knowing the red man as I do. I
have said that there are, comparatively
speaking, only a few of the old stock, but
that does not mean that they will make the
opposition single handed. The younger gen
erations, although they do not wear the
blanket and paint and wear their hair long,
are In hearty accord with the sentiment of
their fathers. One of the first things taught
an Indian child is respect and love for his
parents, and his duty towards them. They
will not see their fathers and mothers abused
without resenting it. Perhaps you -don't re
member the massacre in Minnesota in 1863.
Well, short hair and coats and trousers did
not cause the young reds to forget and desrt
their ancestors. AH along the Mississippi
were scattered cabins of Indians.who had
abandoned the nomadic and wild life,, and
were settled on farms which they tilled as
did their white neighbors. But %hen tha
war broke out did they file with ttt Iwhitetf,
longer tii war with the: whttea.fvaiid ba*-su#r or were they badJLfferent^.No, ihey joined.
mitted to almost any proposition made him,
either willfully or under the influence of fire
water, copiously administered by the civilized
perAtms who would bargain with him.
S a c r e d T r a d i t i o n s M e n a c e d .
The mandatory order that the Indian's hair
be clipped, his paint abandoned and his blan
ket and treasured ornaments thrown aside
for the plain garb of the civilized is, in my
opinion, the last straw. But the simile is hot
perfect, I see, because, instead of.breaking
the red man who is^offended, it will, I fear,
make him again the warrior. There is noth
ing more cherished by the Indian than his
traditions, and among them are those of his
habits of dress and person. Everything that
the older red man wears indicates some
thing. The blanket is the dress of his fore
fathers as far back as tradition records and
those same ancestors wore their hair long,
and in braids', and daubed paint on their
faces and bodies on occasion. It is a cus
tom which the survivors of the aborigines
will insist upon observing when they wish
and, it appears to me .with justification.
But perhaps more to the point that will be
considered by the white man, I think the or
der entirely unneoessary at this time. The.
American citizen who is familiar with the
Indian to-day will bear me out in the state
ment that the progress towards securing the
abandonment of those customs, "relics of the
barbaric stage," they have been called, !s
very satisfactory. In fact, it is much more
rapid than those who remember the savage
warrior of a few years had dared expect.
While older Indians would resent and resist
attempts to sweep away traditional customs
by one peremptory order, the natural tendency
of the younger generation is toward civiliza
tion. The younger generations wear their
hair short, wear the coat and trousers of the
white man, do not paint their faces. They
go to school. They have little desire to paint
and to wear the blanket and other ornaments
that were cherished by their forefathers.
the ranks of the Indians, put on paint and
feathers and fought with their fathers. I
know it will be the same now if agents try
to enforce the new order. -In that event tha
civilization of the Indians, which Js now
going on slowJy but steadily and effectively,
will receive a big set-back.
. Bottineau's uncle, Charles Bottineau, a
tall, gaunt mixed-blood, a man of few
words but all the other characteristics of
a civilized American, who was with hi9
nephew at the interview, nodded his as -
sent to .the other's views. Then in reply
to a question he replied very pointedly:
"There'll be hell to pay."
"Those are my sentiments, more con
cisely put," said Mr. Bottineau, laugh
ingly.
T h e I n d i a n s Affected.
Minnesota Indians who wear long halP
and paint are probably in the minority.
At White Earth long hair is .the excep
tion and paint is used only on ceremonial
occasions, and then only by comparatively
few. The Pillager band of Chippewas a t
Leech Lake contains many long-haired
braves, and the use of paint is more gen
eral. The Pillagers also preserve the
aboriginal dress to a greater.extent than
any other Minnesota Indians. Along tha
north shore of Lake Superior there ara
small, scattered bands of Chippewas who,
from being surrounded by the whites,
have dropped practically all external
marks of the race.
In the Dakotas and Montana, however,
the Sioux, Crees and Blackfoot Indians
generally renew their paint each morning
with as much carei as a white society b i l l *
administers complexion cream. These
western Indians * also, being in larger
bands and less in contact with civilization,
are extremely tenacious of their customs,
and it will be difficult to enforce any or
der against forms of dres% and personal
adornment.
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TURBINE ENGINE
TJie Atlantic to Be Crossed in
Four Days by Its
Use.
New York, Jan. 18To clip from
twenty-four to thirty-six hours from the
record time for crosisng the Atlantic is
the promise of the New York and Europe
an Steamship company, a new. trans
Atlantic steamship line, which offers as
surance of a speedy fulfilment of its
pledge. This company, which has already
applied for pier privileges in this city,
and formulated the larger part of its
plans, expects by the substitution of tur
bine engines for those now in use, to
secure a constant speed of thirty knots
an hour in its new boats. Such a speed
will mean that passengers can be carired
from this country to Europe in a little
more than four days.
To cut off a day in the time of crossing
the Atlantic will mean to bring enormous
profits to the steamship company which
succeceds in doing it. Fast mails, not
only of this country, but those which are
beginning to pass through from Australia
and the far east, will naturally fall to the
steamship company that can hndle them
quickest.
NET AND TWINE MILLS
C o n s o l i d a t i o n Effected, E m b r a c i n g
E v e r y L a r g e P l a n t .
JtTM Xorfo Stn Special Servtee
Gloucester, Mass., Jan. 18.The fcon
solidation of the net and twine mills of
the country is practically complete. The
Barbour, formerly the Hooper plant, in
Baltimore, will be discontinued and its
machines moved to Chicago. The aim
will be to reduce expenses by reduction of
the force of traveling men and office help.
All twine will be made in one mill, proba
bly near the cotton belt. The trust In
cludes practically every large plant in the
, country.
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CONFIRMED
Somewhat Delicate Position
of Judge Baker of the
Seventh Circuit.
. Washington, Jan. 18.The senate com
mittee on judiciary to-day agreed to re -
port favorably the nomination of Francis
E. Baker of Indiana to be circuit judge
in the seventh circuit.
The opposition to Judge Baker's con
firmation was withdrawn, but the cir
cumstances were discussed. There was
especial reference to .the fact that his
father is district judge in the Indiana dis
trict and the point was made that with
the son occupying the circuit bench it
might fall ,to his lot to review his father's
decisions. There was, however, a gen
eral expression that the prominence of a
man's father should not be allowed to
stand as a bar to his own preferment. It
was suggested also that in such cases
Judge Baker's own delicacy could be de
pended upon to find the proper solution ot
the problem. This view was accepted and
the decision favorable to report the nom
ination was not opposed.
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FERRY IN AIR
D n l n t h ' s N o v e l Ca r T r a n s f e r In
d o r s e d b y C o n g r e s s .
Duluth, Jan. 18.A bill authorizing th e
city of Duluth, Minn., to construct a car
transfer or aerial ferry across, the Dulutbj
canal was passed by the house to-day.
GOVERNOR OF BERMUDAS
L i e u t e n a n t General. G e a r y R e c e i v e *
t h e A p p o i n t m e n t .
2Teu York Sun Special Service
London, Jan. 18.Lieutenant General
Sir Henry Le Guay Geary has been an*
pointed governor of the Bermudas.
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